Ethereum Debit Card & Bitcoin Crypto Cards reviewed 2017

We have reviewed the best Bitcoin Debit Cards, Ethereum are the future – and with a Top rated Bitcoin or Crypto Debit Card, you can pay anywhere on this planet where Credit- or Debit Cards are accepted with the Crypto Currency of your choice.

Together with your Bitcoin Wallet, you can replace about most of all services a normal Bank can provide to you.If you want to invest and trade, you can choose a crypto currency broker from a big variety of websites as well.

Best private Bitcoin debit card solution

Even if no perfect solution exists for total privacy with convenience for Bitcoin debit cards, a workable compromise can be reached. A user wishing to maintain privacy can acquire an unverified card and either stay below the limit, or simply acquire multiple unverified Ethereum cards, moving to a new one once the lifetime.

While this approach can be vastly inconvenient with heavy card use (possibly a new card per month or more), if major bills are handled separately, all expenses possible are paid directly in Ether or Bitcoin, and almost all other purchases are handled by either Bitcoin & Ethereum gift cards or cash, card use can be kept to a minimum. Using a Bitcoin debit card in this way, an unverified card may be able to last a year or possibly more.

Everybody charges for card funding, there is no such thing as free funding of these prepaid cards with e-wallets attached to them, as far as I know. Even if it may be theoretically cheaper or free (let’s imagine that), you need to look at the entire fee structure, not just at this one fee. I think combined with the extremely low card price and no monthly or annual maintenance fees this is one of the best offers on the market. Even with the ‘ludacris’ card funding fee.

I am new to ADVcash and recently made an account and plan to use it a lot. I have just verified my account and have the plastic visa on the way. I have a few questions for people who are long term users of ADVcash

1. should I be safe keeping a high balance on there? 5 figures? I read about a plastic card getting skimmed, and cloned, but read only load money onto your visa right as you need it, dont keep a balance on there, but what about in your ADVcash account? (I see exchanges who trade it have big reserves 100k+, so maybe its ok? but wanted to hear from you guys)
2. I see on exchanges and lots of places where big traders will pay a premium (~3%) to trade their ADVcash USD for your bitcoin, any idea why that is?
3. I saw some changes to the wavecrest mastercard oct 15? do you think this will affect anything? Would they replace the card for free? Would hate to pay $50 (express tranport fee) for the mastercard to only get it deactivited shortly after.
4. I realize there are limits on the virtual and plastic cards for non verified members. But are non verified members able to send and recieve ADVcash wallet to wallet transfers unlimited without being verified?

Non-verified personal account owners can deposit up to $2,500 a month and $1,000 a day. They can also withdraw up to $500 a day and $2,500 a month. For internal transfers to and from other Advanced Cash users, so both receiving and sending, the monthly/daily limit is $3,000. In certain cases, verification and/or additional verification may be requested according to our security and fraud prevention practices.

You get a free first year, then you pay a monthly or yearly fee. Yearly is cheaper. Since then, Xapo has become both better and worse, but I’d still recommend them above any other crypto to creditcard options. Xapo is that good that you could use it as your only hotwallet you take with you. Samourai wallet may still have some features you’ll find out (sometimes too late) that you can’t live without.

I have Xapo, Wirex, Cryptopay and have just signed up for Bitwala. My own experience is that Xapo is best simply due to the instant conversion of BTC->FIAT at point of sale. You only convert exactly the amount of BTC you are spending. The others just feel far less slick, as you need to “load up” your prepaid debit card before spending. First Impressions on Bitwala is it looks really good but still waiting on Level 2 verification to see how their Card aspect works. Will update on my experience with Bitwala….but for now Xapo all the way. Jessie in Xapo Support is utterly fantastic.

Didn’t end up getting verified for Lev2 as the process was painful. In fainess I now should mark Xapo down as I tried to use my card while on holiday and it kept stating WRONG PIN even though the Pin was entered correctly and matched what was shown on the app. All in all, I think debit cards are a “nice to have” but still have all the usual failings of any centralised service. I have moved all BTC out of all 3rd party services and shall keep it this way. Shame too as I really did like Xapo…..just didnt like being let down when it mattered most to me.